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On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:46:11 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:17:32 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:51:59 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:
stations - quite a complication to add on a large line plus we do not
yet know who will build the extra "compatible" 95 and 96 stock trains
for expanded services on the Northern and Jubilee Lines. We also
I wonder if the trains will be compatible but with completely new electronics
(I imagine a lot changes in 20 years), or whether they'll be a carbon copy
of the current trains down to the transistor level because it'll be simpler
and cheaper to do that which will mean Bombardier almost certainly getting
the contract.
They will have modern electrics, but why would Bombardier get the contract
if they were identical? It had nothing to do with the 95/96 stock.
Alstom is the almost certain winner of the deal, as it built the current
95/96 fleets. Also, note that the newer 95 stock has more modern drive
trains than the slightly older 96 stock.
I thought Bombadier had bought Alstoms train business in the UK a while back
but it seems not. But weren't they built in Brum?
The original ones were assembled in Washwood Heath, in the former MetCam
factory that built many previous LU fleets, including the 59, 62, 67, 72,
73, D78 and 83 fleets. That factory was subsequently closed by Alstom, so
the top-up Jubilee 96TS order was built in an Alstom plant in Barcelona.
Bombardier only has one train factory in the UK, in Derby, which it
acquired when it took over Adtranz. That factory built the 92, 09 and S
stock fleets. It had nothing to do with the 95/96 or older LU fleets.